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Vodafone Compass Squares up to be Next 360 Phone

by Jay Garrett on February 8, 2010

Mobile-Review seems to have a bit of a scoop – this, they say, is the new Vodafone 360 phone.

Dubbed the Vodafone Compass (which may confuse people as Vodafone Compass is also the name of a GPS app), it could well be the third Vodafone 360 social networking phone.

What makes this interesting, apart from the shape, is that the previous phones have been Samsung touchscreen numbers but here we have a square thing rocking a QWERTY board a-la Nokia 7705 Twist.

Vodafone 360 gives you a bunch of social networking niceness such as the geographic coordinates of friends, the address book yanks in Facebook updates and all sorts of contact options like IM and email.

Apparently some of the functions on the Compass 2010 will be gesture controlled using that centralised button on the back.

It should be able to cope with music playing and internet browsing.

So – is it hip to be square?

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Facebook Updates – Even Boring When You’re on the Run

by Jay Garrett on December 23, 2009

This just shows how ingrained updating your social networking pages has become.

The last thing on my mind would be to send tweets or update my Facebook status – but not so Craig Lynch.

Lynch is actually an escaped prisoner and he’s been updating his friends about life on the run via his Facebook page – much to the annoyance of the old Bill.

Craig Lynch, 28, was serving the final portion of a seven-year jail term for aggravated burglary when he escaped during day release.

Police are now trying to catch Lynch using clues left in his Facebook updates as well as appealing to his 248 friends for information regarding his whereabouts.

A photograph on the page shows Lynch looking at the camera and holding up a finger in an apparent defiant gesture.

While on-the-run Lynch posted details of him nearly crashing his car in the icy weather, and of the meals he had.

Hmmm……… you’d think that an escaped con would be able to have more exciting updates than “just ate some toast” or whatever wouldn’t you?

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The Dead to get Special Memorialised Facebook Pages

October 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Facebook has just announced that it’s bringing in a new feature that will allow friends and family to ‘memorialise’ the profiles of their loved ones who have sadly shuffled loose this mortal coil.
As well as being able to memorialise the deceased Facebook will also ensure that the friends and family are not needlessly reminded of [...]

New Taser Shotgun – Is Cute, Fluffy and Loves Social Networking [Twitter and Facebook]

July 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you don’t like regular tasers because you have to get fairly close to the person you want to immobilise – help is now at hand!
Over at Wired’s Danger Room blog, David Hambling has slapped an extensive post up about a new series of “less-lethal” weapons from “controversial electroshock weaponeer” Taser International.
Not only are these weapons [...]